Tall and thin, twenty-eight-year-old Bronwyn Palmer has become positively gaunt, a ghost of her former self. That self was—and still is—the wife of a rich, handsome executive with an ocean-view house and his own security staff.It was in that house, two years ago, that Bryce Palmer learned Bronwyn was pregnant with their first child. But Bryce’s rage over his impending fatherhood touched off a … off a chain reaction of emotional and physical traumas that wounded them both. For Bronwyn, it meant fleeing the perfect marriage to start over with nothing but a precocious daughter named Kayla to care for. For Bryce, it meant a tortuous two years spent blaming his wife for deserting him, and living with the pain of not knowing his child. Now a chance encounter has brought Bronwyn back into Bryce’s life, both bearing scars…and neither knowing the whole truth of that fateful night that drove them apart.
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Love, love, loved this story! I didn’t want to like the husband at the being, but as their story developed his struggles became more apparent and sympathetic. Highly recommend this book!
2.5
Spanish & English Opinion
No pude conectar con los personajes… a ella la entendí al irse pero todo su drama fue muy extra. Él y su “alucinación” fueron absurdos y todo lo que hizo para según desquitarse… no. Simplemente no pude sentí conexión con la historia o los personajes.
Puntos positivos: el estilo de escritura es ameno y fácil de leer y hay momentos lindos (cómo cuando se conocen).
It was impossible for me to connect with the story or the characters. I understood her when she left but the drama she went through seemed unreal and unbelievable.
Then we have the hero… and his “hallucination” that was really absurd as well as his acting after that. It was just a story I felt connected to or characters I felt drawn to.
Positive aspect: the writing style is nice and easy to read. There are some cute moments like when they meet.
Between a three star and a four star for me. Anders ups her game from The Unwanted Wife (I’m still not too sure of Sandro) and the writing has improved. In The Unwanted Wife, the kudos go to the heroine in my opinion as when she is fed up with both husband and father she is done. Kind of done anyway. Here, the honors go to the hero.
Two years before the story starts the hero told the heroine to leave when she tells him she’s pregnant. She does leave and long reaching chaos ensues. No doubt about it, the hero, his brother and some of his male friends are either completely hateful to indifferent to the heroine after her two year sojourn. This is given the fact they think the heroine coldly watched while the hero potentially died in a car accident that left him deaf it’s understandable. Oddly enough the females don’t have much problem. Theresa makes a brief appearance in her now all too perfect romance.
The hero is unrepentantly awful to the heroine now that she’s back while surprisingly she gives back as good as she gets. Of course that doesn’t stop them from succumbing to passion again and again. A little repetitive there but fine. She has her feisty little plot moppet along that the hero falls head over heels for.
Once the truth comes out, the hero is horrified. He still can’t say “I love you”, but his actions reek of apology and grovel. Eventually he can express his emotions and his real grovel comes out and it’s a pretty big one.
Points off for the fact that he is a big-time millionaire with a security detail and investigators but was unable to find his wife and child for two years. There’s more to story that’s a little dubious, but the drama and angst is up there.
A story about forgiveness and overcoming mistakes.
This is the second book in the Unwanted series, but it’s a complete standalone.
As you can read in the blurb, Bronwyn and Bryce were married, but when she got pregnant, he reacted in a total unexpected way, sending her away and refusing to accept her and the baby.
Two years later, when fate crosses their paths again, they are forced to aknowledge all the mistakes that were made and, for the sake of sweet little Kayla, try to overcome their differences once and for all.
Bryce has made one mistake after the other, but lives in denial thinking Bron was the one to blame for their failed marriage.
The point is there were feelings bettwen them, even after everything that happened, but there was also so much miscomunication, specially from Bryce’s side.
I expected more groveling from his part, but I liked when he realized his mistakes and found out other things his mind had tricked him out of beliving.
After that, it was trying to right his wrongs and fight to save his relarionship with the woman he loved.
It was a good read with many emotions and a good touch of angst.
It’s been over 4 years since I read THE UNWANTED WIFE and I’ve been curious to see what my opinion of A HUSBAND’S REGRET would be having read hundreds and hundreds of books in between.
I find Natasha Anders’ writing easy to read and her plots flow at a good pace but I struggled to empathise with either character. Emotions are overblown and the fallout of miscommunication is immense enough that lives are changed forever. At times I did feel myself wobbling in my thoughts about Bryce and Bronwyn but when I took a step back and reflected, I just could not support their decisions.
I don’t think I’ll have the tolerance to read any more of Ander’s earlier books but I like her writing style enough to give new books a go to see the progression of her writing.
2.5 stars